Good News Translation
He sprinkles frost over the ground like salt, and it freezes into thorny flowers of ice.

New Revised Standard Version
He pours frost over the earth like salt, and icicles form like pointed thorns.

Contemporary English Version
He sprinkles frost as though it were salt, and icicles form.

New American Bible
He scatters frost like salt; it shines like blossoms on the thornbush.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.

And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.

Sirach 43:17
At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the south wind shall blow.

Sirach 43:18
The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirlwind:

Sirach 43:20
The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.

Sirach 43:21
He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.